NOT ONE OF US STORIES OF ALIENS ON EARTH Edited by Neil Clarke If you find a bit of yourself in these stories, this book is for you. Introduction Throughout the science fiction landscape, aliens have been used to illustrate our own best and worst traits, but from a distance that makes it more palatable than a closer look in the mirror. They are portrayed as invaders, refugees, saviors, observers, outsiders, opportunists, and sometimes as beings that barely notice our existence. Yet, outside of ...

THE YEARS BEST DARK FANTASY HORROR 2018 EDITION Edited by Paula Guran Introduction: Same Old Stories Paula Guran Cassandra Khaw begins her story Dont Turn Out the Lights: Stories are mongrels. It dont matter whether they were lightning-cut into stone or whispered over the crackle of a dying flame no story in the world has pedigree. Theyve all been told and retold so many times that not God himself could tell you which one came first. Yes, every story in creation. That sentiment has been ...

THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP HORROR STORIES OF THE SEA Edited by Ellen Datlow Thanks to Stefan Dziemianowicz and to my editor, Jason Katzman. INTRODUCTION I grew up loving the ocean. My family went to New Yorks Rockaway Beach for many summers when I was a child and through my teenage years. I loved the beach, lying on the sand, baking in the sun pre-cancer scares with my friends, the smell of the tar in the parking lotsand of the oceanand body surfing in the waves. I also went fishing with my dad in ...

NEW FEARS 2 Edited by Mark Morris INTRODUCTION So here we are again. For those of you who missed out on the original volume in this series, let me explain what New Fears is all about. As a child I grew up reading numerous anthologies of ghost and horror stories, and back in those halcyon days they were nearly all un-themed. Each book contained a delicious blend of stories both supernatural and non-supernatural, some of which would be gory, some subtle, some surreal, some sad, some funny In ...

Steve Rasnic Tem EXCAVATION For Melanie, with special thanks to Dan Simmons and Ed Bryant Chapter 1 Again the bear awakened with his muzzle sunk in huckleberries. He snorted once and inhaled them. Growled deep within his throat and raised up. Stiffened and scented the air. Nothing. But something bothered him, just on the edge of his awareness. He could not smell it, or hear it. He lumbered off toward the trees, leaving even this vague awareness behind. He recognized the kind of tree where he ...

Steve Rasnic Tem UGLY BEHAVIOR Introduction Im not particularly known as a writer of violent stories. But ugly stories, tales about the terrible things we do to ourselves and to each other, have always accounted for a portion of my work. And of course there are those who believe all tales of crime and horrorwhether supernatural or notare by definition ugly and do not care to read about these things. A collection such as Ugly Behavior would not be for them. Both for those readers who appreciate ...

Steve Rasnic Tem UBO For Melanie, Always Man seeks for drama and excitement when he cannot get satisfaction on a higher level, he creates for himself the drama of destruction. Erich Fromm, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness 1 NOW IN UBO, he felt as if hed not just fallen into but passed through the rabbit hole. Every resident had a similar memory of the journey here: a dream of dry, chitinous wings crossing the moon, the gigantic insects so like roaches or cicadas dropping swiftly over the ...

THE BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR VOLUME SIX Edited by Ellen Datlow Also Edited by Ellen Datlow A Whisper of Blood A Wolf at the Door with Terri Windling After with Terri Windling Alien Sex Black Heart, Ivory Bones with Terri Windling Black Swan, White Raven with Terri Windling Black Thorn, White Rose with Terri Windling Blood is Not Enough: 17 Stories of Vampirism Blood and Other Cravings Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction and Fantasy Fearful ...

THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR 23 STEPHEN JONES lives in London, England. He is the winner of three World Fantasy Awards, four Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Awards and three International Horror Guild Awards as well as being a twenty-one time recipient of the British Fantasy Award and a Hugo Award nominee. A former television producerdirector and genre movie publicist and consultant the first three Hellraiser movies, Night Life, Nightbreed, Split Second, Mind Ripper, Last Gasp ...

Dark Terrors 3: The Gollancz Book of Horror Edited By Stephen Jones David Sutton INTRODUCTION Although he was never actually our in-house editor that dubious pleasure belongs to the inimitable Jo Fletcher, through his role as Editorial Director, Richard Evans became our spiritual guide when we moved our series of original horror anthologies from Pan Books to Victor Gollancz in 1995. Born in West Wales in 1950, Richard won a full scholarship to Oxford, where he studied Modern History and where ...

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror. Volume10 INTRODUCTION: Horror in 1998 Following a two-year decline in North America,a near-record number of genre books appeared in 1998. The total for horror titles was up slightly on the previous year, with around a quarter of those books published in the young adult market and more than 15 per cent of them featuring vampires. However, the overall number of genre books published in Britain fell to its lowest for nearly a decade. Horror titles were down ...